It was the first day of Cisco’s annual Partner Summit, and Cisco worldwide channel chief Keith Goodwin was where he usually is at that time of year: on stage. The Cisco channel had gathered, and Goodwin was gearing up for the emphatic delivery of this year’s Partner Summit theme, “Write the rules. Own the game.”

Cisco's supply chain crisis impacted a number of Cisco's products. Based on feedback from Cisco solution providers, IT distributors, technology analysts and secondary market resellers, here's a look at where some of the worst product shortages hit.

In today’s tough economic times, many companies have had to cut back on IT staff once used for managing technology assets and networks, and for monitoring network security. The need for these services has not disappeared; it has simply shifted to other workers or is being neglected altogether.

In a strange comedy of errors, Apple and AT&T have had to take a big bite out of humble pie with a series of reputation-crippling blunders. How much longer can the duo sustain their seemingly dysfunctional relationship?

Business IT spending has returned, which means an opportunity for solution providers to deliver network security, storage, wireless, IP surveillance and other technologies to their customers. Individually, each of these markets is growing again at healthy paces.

Startup company AccelOps' flagship product, and namesake, is designed to gather and interpret data from device and server logs, track configuration changes and display the differences, visualize device and application dependencies to simplify problem diagnosis, and reduce downtime.

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The security industry saw more threats and funding opportunities in 2017, with massive data breaches and ransomware attacks crippling major institutions, and vendors tapping into the deep pockets of private equity and IPOs.